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PROGNOSIS:
ENHANCED
soldier
survival
by Mr. Doug Wright
T
he Army’s
modernization
strategy has one focus: Make
Soldiers and units more lethal
to win our nation’s wars and
come home safely. Lethality is important,
but so is survival. That’s why medical
equipment modernization is just as criti-
cal as the modernization of other Army
resources.
WHAT CHANGED?
The way the Army delivers medical care
on the battlefield is dramatically different
than it was 100 years ago, or even 10 years
ago. Every war or conflict offers lessons
that improve lifesaving medical care on the
front lines, which is why the survival rate
for injured warfighters is higher than it has
ever been.
At the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency
(USAMMA), a subordinate organiza-
tion of the U.S. Army Medical Research
and Materiel Command (USAMRMC),
we work to design, develop, deliver and
sustain new medical capabilities to further
strengthen Soldier sur vivability.
But what about the capabilities we already
have? As an organization we knew that we
needed to make sure we were providing the
most up-to-date medical materiel solutions.
So, in November 2017, USAMMA stood
up the Medical Devices Modernization
Directorate, a new program management
office solely focused on medical device
modernization. It is a small but robust
office of product managers, maintenance
experts and logisticians who, in collabora-
tion with the rest of USAMMA, chart the
“ life expectancy” of our fielded medical
devices and create strategies to replace and
modernize them. While medical materiel
modernization was not a new mission for
USAMMA, reorganizing to create a new
team focused entirely on this effort will
allow us to provide better life cycle man-
agement of our inventory of fielded medical
devices within the Army.
Army medicine stands up Medical
Devices Modernization Directorate.
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